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Data Scientist & IT support for the SDAV Lab at UH-Hilo | Phonologist in a former life | Lover of very many geeky things | Medieval or Metal | Stros! | she/her

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Difficulty of understanding Spanish accents

09.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
Language and Social Issues: An Investigator's Toolkit.  Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain.  Cambridge University Press.  The cover art is a young Black woman joyfully puking colors and patterns.

Language and Social Issues: An Investigator's Toolkit. Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain. Cambridge University Press. The cover art is a young Black woman joyfully puking colors and patterns.

authors' copies just arrived! Textbooks are a scam but we worked hard on this one and in spite of the ai-cover art I'm pretty proud.

08.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tyme tyme tyme
see what hath bicom of me
whyle Ich lookid arounde
for my possibilityes
Ich was a burden to plese
Nowe looke arounde
Leaves are broun
And the skye
Ys a hazye shade of wynter

08.03.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

call me a spondee by cause Ich am stressed stressed

03.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
MEGA Cam Live
MEGA Cam Live YouTube video by MEGA Lab

HawaiΚ»i Island #Kona coast #livecam is here:
The MEGA Lab ocean observatory hosts a live streaming camera and a smart buoy to monitor ocean temperatures and coral reef health through a collaboration with UH Hilo and Aqualink off the coast of Kona, HawaiΚ»i Island, HawaiΚ»i.

#webcam #underwatercam

24.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Revolutionary Nahuatl for February 24, 2026.

Monequi momictizqueh in tetzintzayananimeh.

Rapists should be executed.

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Monequi = it is necessary that
momictizqueh = they will be killed
in = the
tetzintzayanimeh = rapists

24.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Revolutionary Nahuatl for February 23, 2026.

Xicchichinocan mochi.

Burn it all down.

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xi- = command prefix
-c- = it [3rd person singular object]
chichinoa = to burn thoroughly
-can = plural for commands

mochi = everything

23.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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HPPA's Belinda says good morning to you with this crimson ʻōhiʻa lehua blossom (& buds) she photographed at the beautiful Kahuku Unit of our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes NP, known for its abundant #ōhialehua blooms.

Find us in the visitor center park store!

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP #HUKU

19.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Small vermillion honeycreeper hanging upside-down from a mamane branch with its long curved bills stuffed into a yellow blossom

Small vermillion honeycreeper hanging upside-down from a mamane branch with its long curved bills stuffed into a yellow blossom

I'iwi spend a LOT of time collecting food, as they're primarily nectavores...sometimes they get acrobatic about it. : ) For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #CollectingFood , I'iwi on mamane!
#birds πŸŒΏπŸ“·πŸ¦‰

17.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

Roses are red
Violets are grue
In Ancient Egyptian,
Pashto, and Zulu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

14.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 598 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 18

Precisely so!

09.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay I love this so much! πŸ₯Ή

07.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Language and Social Issues | Cambridge Aspire website Discover Language and Social Issues, 1st Edition, Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, HB ISBN: 9781108837200 on Cambridge Aspire website

Our book is available for preorder!

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #linguisticAnthropology #languageAndSocialIssues #TheGenderChapterWillDefinitelyGetMeFired

www.
cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-and-social-issues/5C1D0C2F61B4D0ADA69AE7024EF1E1E2

27.01.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Can't argue with that

27.01.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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US States that are greeting you in a friendly manner

23.01.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 243 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

20.01.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 9142 πŸ” 2368 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 203
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Hawai’i Island videographer & photographer @kveeks (IG) created this masterpiece during the 40th fountaining episode of #KΔ«lauea Volcano πŸŒ‹ at #hawaiivolcanoesnps, catching these nΔ“nΔ“ πŸ¦†πŸ¦†in their volcanically dynamic home & wowing our socks off.
@everythinghawaiitv
@kveeks
#kilaueavolcano #nenepair

14.01.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5

UCB, right?? πŸ˜‚

07.01.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy almost belated bday! πŸŽ‰πŸ˜ΊπŸ’«

05.01.2026 09:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Dobranotch - Du Hast (Rammstein cover)
Dobranotch - Du Hast (Rammstein cover) YouTube video by Dobranotch

Hadn't noticed before how well "Du Hast" works as klezmer www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C04...

04.01.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

31.12.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 908 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 33

Whenever I want to feel better, I combine the words β€œfork” and β€œspoon” to β€œFpoon” and say it out loud several times in a row.

Fpoon

FPOON

31.12.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The tyme bitwene the wyntere holidayes and the new yeare. The tyme of disorganizacioun. The tyme outsyde of tyme.

26.12.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Fountaining lava and steam reflect off clouds with the lights of buildings in lower right

Fountaining lava and steam reflect off clouds with the lights of buildings in lower right

Whoops, Kilauea is erupting again, can see it from here at the Haleakala summit!

24.12.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2
A red cargo van with the words "Free DDR5 RAM" written on the driver's side.

A red cargo van with the words "Free DDR5 RAM" written on the driver's side.

10.12.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

lol I think I park near her all the time at work but we’ve never actually met!! Too funny!! πŸ˜‚

30.11.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy World Linguistics Day from Hilo, HawaiΚ»i!! πŸŒˆπŸŒ΄πŸŒ‹

26.11.2025 06:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spending a semester with us is a great option for undergraduate students who study volcanoes but have never seen one erupt. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

25.11.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Sent Hundreds of Thousands of E-mails to the Future. Here’s the Story Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next

Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next

18.11.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

/oy/ is like the alien DNA in our vowel system

15.11.2025 23:41 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0